Notes from the rehearsal room: what I’m making, what I’m learning, and the occasional strong opinion.
Since working in theatre, I have always had a distrust of directors who approach a play with a big idea – ‘The Tempest is about control, Prospero coercively controls the narrative and characters, and so I will set my production in a circus ring with Prospero as ringmaster.’
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If you’re reading this, it means that I have finally lost my game of digital hide-and-seek. You’ve found me.
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Every new website comes out of the box with a painfully generic, automatically generated post titled "Hello World!" But considering you have spent the better part of your life crafting entirely original narratives, leaving a standard robot greeting sitting on your new digital desk felt like a crime. So, Andy and I decided to hijack your very first entry.
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Last night I ran a workshop for Bristol A Cappella, a champion mixed barber shop chorus. They are conscious that the world in which they move is pushing towards greater theatricality in its performance, and wanted some support in helping their members act through the songs they sing. At the end of the session, one of the members showed me a big red cardboard sign that they have, emblazoned with the words TOO MUCH. They use this if the choir over act. Apparently it is rarely required.
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The first being a reminder that many people don’t use the term R&D in their work, so when you’re talking to your friends just check that they know what it stands for.
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